Mount Union's Aubree Jones wins discus national title

Review Staff Report

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May 26, 2012 at 4:00 AM

CLAREMONT, Calif. -- Mount Union senior Aubree Jones (Falconer, N.Y./Falconer) became the first Purple Raider since 1995 to win a national title as she won the discus late Thursday night at the NCAA Division III Track & Field Championships at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges in Claremont, California.

On Friday, West Branch graduate Taylor Kring had season-best time of :14.16 in the 100 meter hurdles to qualify for the finals. She will run for a national championship at 6:15 p.m. EDT tonight.

Jones fired off a school-record throw of 153-10 to win the national title in her final collegiate meet. Jones, an All-American in the javelin a year ago, was not alone on the medal platform as her twin sister Anna Jones also had a career-best throw of 144-6 to finish seventh and earn All-American honors.

Junior Mary Mahoney (Ashtabula/St. John-St. Paul) won her heat of the 200 meters to get into the finals with a career-best and school-record time of 24.08.

Mahoney along with sophomores Taylor Ruffing (Attica/Seneca East) and Lisa Brasdovich (Columbia Station/Columbia) along with freshman Taylor Coghlan (Twinsburg/Twinsburg) ran their best time of the year in the 4x100 meter relay (47.45) and are in the finals in the eighth spot.

Sophomore Alex Kovalik (Aurora/Aurora) stayed in sixth place after the first day of the decathlon.

Kovalik competed in the 100 meter dash, shot put, long jump and high jump all on day one of the event. His best event of the day was the 100 meters where he placed sixth.

Senior Sean Denard (Naperville, Ill./Naperville North) made the finals but finished ninth, one spot out of All-American honors in the men's discus (166-07) while freshman Tyler Mettille (Canfield/Canfield) missed the finals in the 400 meter hurdles by 0.06 seconds.

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